Strange7 comments on Time and Effort Discounting - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Yvain 07 July 2011 11:48PM

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Comment author: Strange7 08 July 2011 07:31:17AM 1 point [-]

http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ss/babies_and_bunnies_a_caution_about_evopsych/1o4d

Naturally-occurring cases where hyperbolic discounting leads to suboptimal solutions are relatively rare, and at least one seems to have evolved a patch.